Fry's is awesome

[mercanucaribe]

I bought an E6600 combo yesterday. It had the "F" in the batch number, which I found out today means it takes more voltage and isn't as good at OC as the A and B. I returned the CPU and one of the guys in the hardware section had someone look at the boxes. They only had A and F, so I got an A. Woot!

Edit: Is it safe to assume that if fans spin up sometimes (maybe 3 out of 20 tries), that the motherboard is bad?

 

[HopJokey]

So how does the new one overclock?

 

[mercanucaribe]

I don't know. I never used the old one either-- all unopened or I wouldn't have returned it. I'm gonna build it in a little while.

 

[n7]

:thumbsup:

Keep us posted on the OCing.

 

[mercanucaribe]

I can't OC yet. I wanted to get a good chip for the future. I'm still using the ECS. Or I would be if it would boot... Fans spun up once, after I tried plugging the PSU into another mobo to make sure it worked, but I got nothing on my monitor.

Great....

 

[mercanucaribe]

Anyone know if I can exchange the motherboard without the CPU? When I returned the CPU I had to return the ECS too, but I don't know if it's different for an exchange. Maybe I should just buy a good motherboard to begin with

 

[MDE]

They'll swap out just the board, they did for me at least (Downers Grove, IL Fry's).

 

[mercanucaribe]

So is it probably the motherboard? Could anything else cause this problem? I've had bad RAM before, and fans spun up.

 

[aigomorla]

rofl... the ECS board is utter crap.

Think of it as a freebe and get a decient board.

Did you get the ATI chipset ECS board also?

It has memory issues with booting off ram higher then 2gb running faster then 533mhz. I think that might be your culpret.

Try sticking in 1 stick of ram and see if it boots up.


Lastly, no frys requires everything to be brought in back for a exchange or refund. So sometiems its more of a PITA swapping something out and returning to frys.

But if your socali local, Burbank Frys, last time i went there, last week or so, had B batches as OEMS.

My E6600 did 3.7ghz on 1.45 b4 my bios flash fubared my board out. I kept her at 3.6ghz because it was about 5C cooler on load. Dont ask me, i think my board had serious issues.

 

[mercanucaribe]

I got the ECS mobo exchanged. If I'd read this thread before I would have just tried 1 stick! Doh! I even thought to do that, but then dismissed it as a useless idea.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Set up the new board.. same thing, with just 1 1gb stick of RAM. Any ideas?

 

[mercanucaribe]

I just pulled out the PCIE slot... The lock (which exists for no fvcking reason) wouldn't open, so I just pulled. The whole slot came out with the card. The only reason I was removing the video card was to check the CMOS jumper, which ECS decided to put right behind it.

 

[n7]

Good god...i'd recommend getting a real mobo.

But it sounds like maybe the CPU is DOA?

 

[mercanucaribe]

Does that happen more than one time in a million? I think fans would spin up even if the CPU was dead

 

[Blurry]

I built a C2D system for a friend not too long ago (E6300 on a Gigabyte mobo). Installed everything, turned it on and fan struggled to spin a couple times before quitting. Turns out his mobo didn't like his OCZ ram.

Anyways, moral of this story is - check your other stuff because it is unlikely that the CPU is DOA.